Opera perfecta/imagines

	Image: Autumn Oak.svg Text: Autumn Oak.txt: Autumn Oak provenance November 2012 media scalable vector graphics note Inspired by a leaf hanging over the sidewalk while walking my dog. source Autumn%20Oak.svg
	Image: Carnival.svg Text: Carnival.txt: Carnival provenance December 2012 media scalable vector graphic note Inspired in part by the ceiling light in my bedroom and the wallpaper I found in the bathroom when I bought my house 25 years ago, this design makes use of SVG's ease of replication and transparency. The star pattern is a relaxed version of the union of the US flag; here the line drawing remains visible and the stars line up informally compared to the regimented rows of the flag, twisting out of line and overlapping the border. source Carnival.svg
	Image: Christmas2016.svg Text: Christmas2016.txt: Christmas 2016 provenance December 2016 media scalable vector graphic note Christmas art source Christmas2016.svg
	Text: ChristmasCard.txt: Christmas card screenprint provenance made by Peter Cardinal circa December 1976 media screen print note date established by remembered connection to Madison apartment photos 20220903_0007 20220903_0005 Photo: /Opera Photo: /Opera
	Image: Golden Night.svg Text: Golden Night.txt: Golden Night provenance October 2012; version 2 in June 2014 media scalable vector graphics note Partly inspired by a stylized forest selected for the 2010 Art Annual at the Neville Public Museum, the overall motif is a grove of trees at night (perhaps illuminated by the light of a campfire). It is not coincidence, however, that the stylized trees resemble tuning forks and that the lines fading away into the distance might remind the viewer of a musical staff. This was my first work using Scalable Vector Graphics as a medium of purely digital synthetic art. note Version 2 (2014) corrected positioning of the horizontal background bars and changed the framing colors note chosen for the Inkdrop Arthaus Print of the Month Club (for 2015) source Golden%20Night.svg
	Image: Golden Night_v1.svg
	Text: SeasonsMural.txt: Seasons Mural provenance 1974 media acrylic on drywall note Digital photo of the mural on my parent's living room wall. Painted in acrylic directly on the wall around 1974; the wall paint shows through as the yellow brick of the path. Three of the four seasons are depicted. There was a thought of creating winter as a separate mural but I never did that. photos SeasonsMural Photo: /Opera disposition overpainted when the house at 419 North Locust, Green Bay, was sold
	Text: aluminum_fish.txt: Hammered aluminum fish provenance made by Peter Cardinal date uncertain, household of Beatrice and Alton Cardinal, then household of Peter Cardinal media aluminum offset printing plate photos 20140129_0010 20140129_0011 Photo: /Opera Photo: /Opera disposition owned by artist as of January 2014
	Text: copper_nativity.txt: Hammered copper nativity scene provenance made by Peter Cardinal probably middle 1980s media sheet copper colored by oxidation in gas flame photos 20140129_0009 Photo: /Opera disposition owned by artist as of January 2014
	Text: early_wire_tree.txt: Wire tree provenance made by Peter Cardinal in mid 1970s media spring steel wire, melted plastic photos Image_0319 Photo: /Opera disposition unknown
	Text: ensign_on_wood.txt: Ensign provenance made by Peter Cardinal 1978 media acrylic on wood photos Image_0381 Photo: /Opera disposition sold with house June 1979
	Text: fantasy_bird.txt: Fantasy bird provenance made by Peter Cardinal date unknown, household of Beatrice and Alton Cardinal, then household of Peter Cardinal media mixed/ink and acrylic on canvas paper photos 20140129_0018 Photo: /Opera disposition owned by artist as of January 2014
	Text: glass_nativity.txt: Painted glass nativity scene provenance made by Peter Cardinal for Beatrice Cardinal around 1976 media [acrylic?] on glass note paint on glass fragments reused from broken storm door (1402 Rutledge Street, Madison, Wisconsin) photos 20140125_4715 20140125_4709 20140125_4710 20140125_4711 20140125_4712 20140125_4713 20140125_4714 20140125_4716 Photo: /Opera Photo: /Opera Photo: /Opera Photo: /Opera Photo: /Opera Photo: /Opera Photo: /Opera Photo: /Opera disposition given to Carol Anne Grady 2006
	Image: harlequin.svg Text: harlequin.txt: Harlequin provenance April 2014 media Scalable Vector Graphics note I was just playing around with SVG and liked the result. source harlequin.svg
	Image: leaf1.svg
	Text: leather_trinity.txt: Leather hanging provenance made by Peter Cardinal date unknown media carved leather with ink note trinitarian symbology photos 20140129_0019 Photo: /Opera disposition owned by artist as of January 2014
	Text: night_seascape.txt: Night sea painting provenance made by Peter Cardinal date uncertain (1990s) media acrylic on acoustic ceiling panel note railing suggesting view from lighthouse, detail of distant ship photos 20140129_0014 20140129_0016 20140129_0017 Photo: /Opera Photo: /Opera Photo: /Opera disposition owned by artist as of January 2014
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	Text: posters.txt: Posters provenance made by Peter Cardinal probably around 1969 media acrylic on posterboard note Evangelism/Mission note I Am an Island photos Scan_162 Photo: /Opera disposition unknown
	Image: puce_stamp.png Image: puce_stamp.svg Text: puce_stamp.txt: Puce Stamps Series 2023 Puce Stamps were a running joke in the 1962 daily Pogo comic strips by Walt Kelly. The Puce Stamps were making fun of the popularity of trading stamps (with special reference to the widely used Green Stamps). In 2023 however trading stamps are virtually unknown. Kelly's stamp design brought up some 60-year-old memories of pasting the stamps in the stamp books for the minimal cash value -- as a 1960s child any cash of my own was worth wetting and pasting the stamps and in truth the task did reinforce the solid middle class capitalist values of accepting a pointless task, carrying it through to its wasteful completion, and receiving a miniscule reward for participation. Quoting from November 27, 1962: HOWLAND OWL: Them puce stamps is okay far as they goes ... ⋮ ≫ More puce_stamp.txt
	Image: puce_stamp_book.svg
	Text: seashell_seascape.txt: Seashell underseascape provenance made by Peter Cardinal probably late 1980s, household of Beatrice and Alton Cardinal, then household of Peter Cardinal media mixed/seashells on painted hardboard note shells were from 1957 trip to Alabama; shadow box made by Alton Cardinal to display this work photos 20140129_0012 20140129_0013 Photo: /Opera Photo: /Opera disposition owned by artist as of January 2014
	Text: wire_trees.txt: Wire trees provenance made by Peter Cardinal in mid 1990s media spring steel wire note mounted October 2016 photos 20161029_0022 20161029_0025 20161029_0026 Photo: /Opera Photo: /Opera Photo: /Opera disposition owned by artist as of October 2016

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